Why apple juice is good for you

Apple juice is a healthy and tasty drink. No wonder he is very popular. Both children and adults drink it with pleasure. In addition, apple juice is commonly used as a base for many other drinks.

The benefits of apple juice

On the positive side, this tasty drink affects the state of the digestion and excretory system. Drinking a glass of apple juice in the morning, you start the body and provide it with a charge of vigor for the whole day. It is useful to drink the juice of the block for the purpose of losing weight. To do this, you need to drink it twice a day. The acid in apple juice prevents glycogen from being processed into glucose and is excellent at breaking down fats. And the low calorie content of the product makes it very useful when observing diets.

This drink is high in fiber, which is beneficial for skin cell renewal. Enzymes contained in drink are good for maintaining immunity. Apple juice is useful for the work of the heart and the good condition of blood vessels. Daily use of apple juice helps to avoid strokes, heart attacks, varicose veins and the formation of cholesterol plaques on the walls of blood vessels.

Apple juice contains many valuable trace elements and vitamins. For example, ascorbic acid, which is part of apple juice, is useful for ridding the body of toxins. Therefore, in case of poisoning, apple juice is especially useful.

The harm of apple juice

Remember not to consume apple juice uncontrollably, especially if you have some health problems.

• First of all, in the presence of such chronic diseases as gastritis, ulcers, pancreatitis, colitis, apple juice should be used very carefully. This is especially true in cases of exacerbation of the disease. During this period, it is better to completely abandon the apple drink.
• If you have high acidity of gastric juice, then dilute the juice apples water.
• In case of indigestion, in particular diarrhea, apple juice is not recommended to drink, as it has laxative properties.
• It is quite rare that a person is allergic to apples. For such people, the use of juice from this fruit is contraindicated.
• In the presence of such a diagnosis as diabetes mellitus, it is better to drink juice from sour apples.

How to make apple juice

Before processing apples for juice, wash and dry the fruit well. Then chop the apples, removing the core with seeds from them, cut off the damaged areas. After that, the apple pieces can be passed through a juicer for a delicious drink.

The amount of juice ultimately depends on the juiciness of the fruits themselves. Usually, to get about 5 liters of juice, you need to process 11 or 12 kg of apples.

To increase the shelf life of the finished juice, it should come into contact with air as little as possible. To do this, pick up a glass bottle with a neck that matches the size of the spout of the juicer. You can use ceramic dishes for storage. But it is better to refuse plastic or metal dishes. Metal tends to oxidize under the influence of apple juice, and plastic will give the drink an unpleasant characteristic taste.

Apple juice can be prepared for future use. For preservation use carefully washed and sterilized glass containers. There are several ways to preserve apple juice.

In the first case, use heating. To do this, pour the prepared juice into a wide enamel saucepan and heat it on the stove without boiling. In this case, small bubbles will begin to appear on the surface. Then turn off the heat under the pan immediately. Pour the heated juice into jars and seal. Flip the cans, lids down, and wrap them in a blanket or other warm cloth. Leave them in this position for 12 hours and only then put them in storage.

If you are not sure about the quality of the apples used for making juice, then you can boil the juice a little before preserving. To do this, you need a heavy-walled saucepan. Boil the juice in it for 5 minutes and pour it into sterilized jars. Then seal and leave to cool under a warm cloth, after turning them over with the lids down.